A 30-year-old woman with placenta percreta with bladder involvement was treated conservatively. A planned cesarean section was performed at 33 weeks’ gestation. A 1768-g female infant was delivered through a transverse fundal uterine incision with the placenta left inside the uterus. The following morning, a massive postpartum hemorrhage occurred, and was successfully treated check details with transarterial embolization. The placenta was never expelled and spontaneously disappeared 4 months after surgery. We demonstrate serial magnetic resonance imaging of
the placenta percreta during pregnancy and the postpartum period.”
“BACKGROUND: The bioconversion of soysterols to androstenedione (AD) by microbial cleavage of C-17 side chain is of practical interest since AD serves as the starting compound for the production of the majority of pharmaceutically active steroids. A total soysterols degrader strain was subjected to combined mitomycin (and UV treatments and a mutant designated Mycobacterium fortuitum subsp. fortuitum NCIM 5239 was isolated that accumulated AD as major bioconversion
product.
RESULTS: Baf-A1 molecular weight The maximum bioconversion of soysterols to AD (71.3 mol %) was obtained at 30 C, pH 5, 15% inoculum grown for 48 h, glycerol (12.689 L(-1)) and urea (1.06 g L(-1)) as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively, at C: N ratio of 10, the use of 10% polypropylene glycol-400 (PPG-400) as soysterols carrier solvent and 3 mg mL(-1) concentration of soysterols after 240 h incubation period in shake flask culture. In a laboratory scale fermentor, a maximum of 64.8 mol % bioconversion of soysterols to AD was recorded after 99 h.
CONCLUSION: The mutant Mycobacterium
fortuitum subsp. fortuitum NCIM 5239 possesses high potential for industrial production of AD from soysterols. (C) 2010 Society of Chemical Industry”
“Ruptured uterus presenting in first trimester of pregnancy is extremely uncommon and should raise the suspicion of uterine malformations. We report a case of a 24-year-old primigravida selleck kinase inhibitor with 10 weeks of gestation presenting with acute abdomen and hemoperitoneum. Laparotomy revealed bicornuate uterus with ruptured rudimentary horn. The incidence, diagnosis and management of such cases is discussed.”
“BACKGROUND: Nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) is a powerful antioxidant with biological activities of great interest in several health areas, including antiviral, cancer chemopreventive, and antitumorgenic. Little information is available on extraction methods of NDGA from Larrea tridentata. Hence, the aim of this study was to develop a rapid and effective microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) method for NDGA recovery from Larrea tridentata leaves, and to compare the results obtained with those found using conventional heat-reflux extraction (HRE).
RESULTS: Extraction time for similar NDGA yields was significantly reduced from 18 to 1 min when MAE was used instead of HRE.